Report on policy options for AQ and CC Deliverable 4.5 iSCAPE project

This report is the output of the work carried out in Task 4.3 of the iSCAPE project, which addresses the efficacy of policy options to reduce air quality in present and future climate taking into account also possible behavioural change. The evaluation of the efficacy of policy options has been conducted by reconstructing detailed air quality maps in three iSCAPE cities, namely Bologna, Hasselt and Vantaa chosen as representative of south, central and north Europe respectively. Following a thorough validation of all numerical models used in present scenarios, simulations have been conducted using downscaled climate projections for the three cities. Changes in air quality in future climate have been documented for several policy options allowing to extract recommendations for the selected cities and easily extendable to other European cities.